The Proposals

Americans depend on our nation’s roads, bridges and schools every day. Our infrastructure was once the envy of the world, but we have allowed it to fall apart and we have fallen behind. Today Americans drive on crumbling roads, bridges...

Every American Worker Who Earned A Pension Through Hard Work Should Keep It, Without A Dollar In Benefit Cuts In the decades after World War II, many labor unions across several different industries worked to create “multiemployer” pension plans with...

Over recent decades, as union density has sharply declined, we have seen the largest increase in income inequality since the Great Depression. Today, working families are finding it increasingly hard to obtain basic economic security. Since the 1970s, almost all...

Every American home, school and small business should be connected to high-speed internet. Unfortunately, there are still too many communities in America that are simply being left behind. Over 34 million Americans, including 23 million rural Americans, do not have...

Across the country, too many families do not have access to high-quality early learning and care that will help their children thrive without breaking the bank. The cost of child care has increased by 25 percent in the past decade,...

Over the past thirty years, growing corporate influence and consolidation has led to reductions in competition, choice for consumers, and bargaining power for workers. The extensive concentration of power in the hands of a few corporations hurts wages, undermines job...

Prescription drug prices are rising at an unprecedented and unsustainable rate. Americans pay more than double what other nations pay for prescription drugs and per capita prescription drug spending in the United States exceeds that of all other countries. Today,...

If we are going to make sure every American can provide a better life for themselves and their families, then we’ve got to focus on the most important issue: good-paying jobs. Today, far too many American workers have been left...